Published: Sep. 13, 2010
Words: 31,311 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9780615389783

Description

Climbing St. Friday is a poignant, nostalgic look at the 1970s adventures of a young Greek-American girl who is sent by her parents from a small town in the Midwest to Athens, Greece, for a year of college. As she spreads her wings in the land that introduced democratic ideals to the world, she does so against the backdrop of a country recently taken over by an oppressive military regime.

Tags

women, coming of age, memoir, growing up, living abroad, greece, americans abroad, ethnic, college life, living overseas, americans, greece military junta, greek americans, hyphenated americans

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Review by: Maria on Nov. 05, 2010 :
Kouremetis wrote a charming and informative story that will make you want to grab a guitar and fly to Greece. Her prose is simple yet vivid, it's like walking into a room full of old friends." www.mariagrazia.tv
(reviewed the day of purchase)

Review by: Maria Karamitsos on Oct. 12, 2010 :
I highly recommend "Climbing St. Friday." You won’t want to put it down. In fact, you’ll get through it pretty quickly and realize you don’t want the story to end; you want to know what happens to her from there. Kouremetis injects humor throughout the tale of her “odyssey” from small town girl to how she felt herself change to a more “sophisticated” European lady - illustrating how much one can change in a 12-month period. It also serves to demonstrate how much impact the environment, people and events can have on you.
(reviewed within a month of purchase)

Review by: JT Long on Sep. 21, 2010 : (no rating)
Dena:
Thank you for sharing a special time in your life. The writing is beautiful and the characters unforgettable.
(reviewed the day of purchase)

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